"Her magic is the nemesis of a pure wizard like me," Ian replied. "And she's attacking the students in your school."
"What? What do you mean?" Tohsaka stood up from his seat and asked.
"She plans to suck the life energy of the students in the school to strengthen herself. One of your teachers - Souichirou Kuzuki - is helping her."
"Teacher Kuzumu? No, we have to stop them," she seemed to remember something and rushed out of the room. Ian The corners of her mouth twitched, she glanced at her, and followed.
On the roof, Tohsaka stopped, and she noticed the fluctuation of magic power. This conflict was obviously the result of the battle between two servants.
"Wait, that direction - that's near Shirou's home." Magic Circuits appeared on her legs, and she rushed forward.
"Little girl, you need to improve your standards for choosing men," Ian said suddenly, which made Tohsaka fall in mid-air.
"You... you... what are you talking about?"
"I mean, you can find someone better than Emiya Shirou," Ian replied. "Especially now, you're probably going to be..."
"Don't talk nonsense," Tohsaka shouted, and then continued to rush forward, Ian following behind. A few seconds later, the tsundere girl asked, "What do you think of Shirou?"
"I despise him," Ian replied casually.
"Why? You don't even know him."
"I've seen his future and past enough to form my own opinion."
"Did he do anything bad?" Tohsaka asked.
"He didn't do anything evil - it was a matter of his character," Ian explained. "This kid once failed to save a single person, and thus developed a pathological heroism complex."
"There's nothing wrong with wanting to be a hero."
"Isn't it a bit protective?" Tohsaka's face was hot with embarrassment, but she decided to ignore this sentence.
"Heroism is good in nature, but not his kind. He desires to save everyone, even at the cost of his own life, whether it's his safety, sanity, body, or the people he loves or cares about. The price he is willing to pay to save people makes one wonder whether he has masochistic tendencies. What's worse is that even if he knows the consequences of the path he is taking, he refuses to change."
Tohsaka thought for a moment and replied, "You are exaggerating."
"Really? I'm sure you've noticed at school. People will ask him for 'favors', but only as an excuse to have him do their work for them. Even though he knows this, and even though he refuses to admit it, he will help them no matter what the task is, no matter how long it takes - because he feels that's what a hero should do."
Ian sneered disdainfully, "He is the kind of hero who, if faced with an absolute choice between the world and the love of his life, would try to save both, only to lose everything. But even this result will not stop him from continuing his hero's journey. I think I should praise his belief."
Tohsaka didn't know what to say. She had seen how some people treated Shirou at school; if it hadn't been for her, it might have been worse. However, she appreciated his kindness and had never seen the problem from that perspective. Just as she was trying to think of an answer, they reached their destination.
"Are those Saber and Lancer?" Tohsaka asked. "Where are their masters?"
"Look at the back of your boyfriend's hand."
"He is not mine... wait, Shirou is the master?"
"Tohsaka?" Shirou shouted, finally noticing their arrival. Saber stopped fighting and jumped in front of Shirou.
"Master, this is a Servant, and their Master is very powerful: be careful." She had never seen a modern magician with this level of magic in the past, and the capacity of the magic emitted by that Servant was also higher than hers.
"Tohsaka, do you know what's going on?" Shirou asked, walking towards her.
"Master, they are enemies," Saber stopped him.
"She is not an enemy, she is my friend."
"He looks confused. Doesn't he know what's going on?" Tohsaka asked.
"It's obvious. The newbie doesn't even know that a trigger is needed to activate his Magic Circuits. He's been using magic by forcing it into real veins; the fact that he's alive to this point is a testament to his good luck."
"Who is this?" Shirou asked with a frown, but Ian had already turned his attention to Lancer.
"I've been looking forward to playing against you."
"You know me?" Lancer asked.
"So to speak," Ian replied, and then immediately launched an attack. Hundreds of small blue light balls materialized in front of his staff and flew towards Lancer at a fast speed. Lancer's reaction was to wave his red spear in a circle to block these light balls, but because they were coming so fiercely and densely, he had to stop blocking and dodge instead.
Ding! Ding! Ding!
Lancer blocked the light ball while dodging. However, the speed of the light ball was amazing and seemed endless. So, he activated his A-level skill without hesitation: Protection from Arrows. With this skill, he could be immune to most flying props. He waved his spear and rushed towards Ian, opening a path in front.
"Interesting skill," Ian muttered to himself, then tapped it with his wand... Boom!
An explosion forced Lancer back. Although his fighting instincts led him to block with his spear, he was still injured. He looked around and saw nothing, but his sense of danger was warning frantically. He moved forward cautiously, and as expected, there was another explosion.
"What a swift and brilliant tactic," he praised. His enemies knew the projectiles were ineffective against him, so they deployed fixed and invisible versions around them, forming a net.
"Ansuz," Lancer spat out a Primordial Runes. As he waved his spear, a burst of flames burst out, detonating the invisible bombs Ian had placed around him. Lancer then took this opportunity to charge forward, but he underestimated the speed at which these things could regenerate.
"Damn," he cursed and was pushed back further. "Ehwaz." With this Primordial Runes, he improved his defense and magic resistance.
"Berkanan." The tracking Rune allowed him to see the invisible bombs.
"Now, let's see how you hide," Lancer said while moving towards the target.
"Yes, but you underestimated me," Ian commented. Under this command, thousands of light balls began to collide and bounce with each other, making their movement trajectories irregular and causing the tracking spell to fail. As a result, Lancer found himself trapped in a minefield full of invisible exploding light balls. These light balls moved quickly and were as unpredictable as drunkards. The strange thing is that when he shuttled through this spell array based on basic magic missiles, there was a smile on his lips.
"Haha, I haven't had this kind of fun in a fight for a while," he said. "In that case, let me show you what I'm capable of."
Just as he was about to use other tactics, he suddenly stopped, which caused an explosion that affected him. Luck What's more, he activated a shield to protect himself.
"It's a pity that our battle must be suspended, but I cannot disobey my master's order," he said to Ian and disappeared. Ian did not stop him because he had already got what he wanted: 18 Primordial Runes in the opponent's mind. He just failed to find the whereabouts of his master, but he doubted whether Lancer himself knew about it.
However, despite the success, he was not happy. First of all, the Primordial Runes in this world was the same as the Ancient Magic Script in <Harry Potter>, but he had known this for a long time. He originally thought that Rune would appear in another form in this universe.
'If I remember correctly, in some legendary versions of this universe, Odin created Primordial Runes instead of discovering them. Maybe the real Primordial Runes is older and more powerful than his version.'
Ian decided to investigate this because what he learned pales in comparison to Primordial Runes from his home universe. And considering...